How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)

Seared into my soul is the experience porting a linux pipe-based application to Windows, thinking it's all posix and given it's all in memory the performance will be more or less the same. The performance was hideous, even after we found that having pipes waiting for a connection more or less ground windows to a halt.

Some years later this got revisited due to needing to use the same thing under C# on Win10 and while it was better it was still a major embarrassment how big the performance gap was.

Some years back Windows added AF_UNIX sockets, I wonder how those would perform relative to Win32 pipes. My guess is better.

Seems to reportedly be slightly faster in a few cases, but nothing particularly dramatic https://www.yanxurui.cc/posts/server/2023-11-28-benchmark-tc...